Study Abroad Grades?

[university99]

Hi everyone. I'm a current college senior and I went abroad spring semester of my Junior year. Naturally, I got pretty dismal grades (somewhere around a C-). I took non-major related courses and took classes that would fulfill elective credit at my university. On my university's transcript, the grades are NOT reflected, but I had to submit transcripts from my study abroad school that has the grades for the classes (mostly in history and art, NOT what I am applying to grad school for), and they are on a 10 point scale, so they are difficult to really translate to letter grades unless you really work it out.

Will adcoms care about these bad grades? Do you think they would even try to decipher the conversion to American letter grading?

[Strangefox]

Hi everyone. I'm a current college senior and I went abroad spring semester of my Junior year. Naturally, I got pretty dismal grades (somewhere around a C-). I took non-major related courses and took classes that would fulfill elective credit at my university. On my university's transcript, the grades are NOT reflected, but I had to submit transcripts from my study abroad school that has the grades for the classes (mostly in history and art, NOT what I am applying to grad school for), and they are on a 10 point scale, so they are difficult to really translate to letter grades unless you really work it out.

Will adcoms care about these bad grades? Do you think they would even try to decipher the conversion to American letter grading?

I am sure they will convert them to American grading. That's what they do with transcripts from international students.

Will these grades matter? If the subjects you studied there were not related to the field you want to work in they might not be of any importance. Espesially if your GPA is high.

Edited December 26, 2010 by Strangefox

[TMP]

If they are on your college transcript, they are "transfer" courses. They'll want the official transcript. If those courses had nothing to do with your intended field of study, I wouldn't sweat over it. I've always sent my transcripts to cover my bases, although they were all relevant to my intended field of study.

[Gradoom]

well, first I am curious where you studied abroad - a "C"(70%) in Germany in not nec. a bad grade. I do not think It will damage you a lot - as they can easily put it down for being

not reflective of your total school performance.

However, me being the opposite (I studied abroad in the US during UG, and now in grad school here) it was much more important. Some applications even force me to convert my grades

not matter if it made sense or not. And naturally as they knew how to interpret US grades, they were a lot more important for me than the foreign ones will be for you. Still good grades always

look better, so I would adress it in the LOI - input of cultural differences etc... extracurricular activities - grades are not everything.

[farahnaz783]

you have just need the transcript of your college nothing else if you have submitted them then its ok otherwise you need to go college and ask them of your transcript they will publish it and you will be able to sent it to your desired university in abroad and then they will allow you